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2023 Black Friday and Cyber Monday retail and e-commerce IT performance observations

Dynatrace

Over the years, I have watched and written about online retail and e-commerce IT performance. What I have seen is a maturing of the online retail channels when it comes to delivering customer experiences. This year we saw few, if any, major issues with online retailers.

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Customer expectations for retail: Beyond digital experience

Dynatrace

This is typically the first thing that comes to mind for IT professionals working in the retail industry when evaluating holiday readiness. CEOs of hybrid retailers prioritize e-commerce growth over in-store shopping, investing heavily in their online storefronts. That lesson remains important. Multi-channel logistics.

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Why Continuous Performance Testing for Retail Apps Matters

DZone

The retail industry has been actively adopting digital transformation in order to provide a better user experience. According to current trends, the reliance on digital channels has been enormous, placing them at the core of all significant online retail operations. The answer is "digital confidence.".

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Frictionless retail: A pandemic imperative for IT

Dynatrace

For most who work in the retail sector, the pandemic has been an unwelcome test of our ability to cope with disruption. In eight months, retailers offering curbside pickup increased from 7% to 44%, reflecting rapidly changing consumer preferences. Let’s illustrate a simple use case for a retail outlet. Dynatrace news.

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How multicloud observability boosts cloud performance at Tractor Supply Co.

Dynatrace

Managing cloud performance is increasingly challenging for organizations that spread workloads across a greater variety of platforms. Moreover, organizations have to balance maintaining security, retaining cloud management expertise, and managing infrastructure performance. Rural lifestyle retail giant Tractor Supply Co.

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Event-Based Autoscaling: Ensuring Smooth Operations on Your Peak Days

DZone

Think about retailers gearing up for Black Friday, sports betting companies preparing for specific games, or marketing teams orchestrating major campaigns. These organizations face a common challenge – how much infrastructure do they need to ensure optimal performance without overprovisioning – which can become very costly, very quickly.

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Dynatrace Named a Leader and Positioned Furthest for Vision and Highest in Execution in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Application Performance Monitoring and Observability

Dynatrace

These environments are marked by continuous delivery of microservice updates into production, the abstractions inherent in Kubernetes environments, and challenges associated with applications distributed across multicloud environments—often with performance and security risks. Dynatrace was recognized as Compuware from 2010-2014.